Biggest Game of the Year!

War Eagle, everybody! It’s Iron Bowl Saturday! I hope everyone’s had a happy, filling holiday. Now, it’s time to cinch up those chin straps, and go to war. May the best man win. This Auburn team goes into the contest a historic 31.5 point underdog, but we’ll be here all day regardless, cheering our Tigers on!

For those attending the game, expect bell-clear blue skies for this one, with a chilly north breeze. The temperature is not likely to reach 50 degrees today, and will be plunging towards 40 in the 4th quarter. The winds should be dying down late, and you might see a waxing gibbous moon rising over Bryant Denny Stadium in the 4th quarter.

As always, feel free to join in and cheer on our Tigers! We’ll be here calling like we see it, and cheering the team on. As the song goes, “we’ll hang Alabama by a sour apple tree, A-U-B-U-R-N!” Glory, indeed! War Eagle, and enjoy the game, folks!

.....Still making noise after all these years! Lifetime slacker, dreamer, and miscreant with a knack for calculation. I was born in the United State of Texas, but have spent the majority of my years here amongst the shaded hills of the Tragic City, enjoying glorious smog-enhanced sunsets. In a troubled county, I live in a little slice of paradise between the ridges of Red and Shades Mountains.
I've been an obsessive Auburn football follower since the Punt-Bama-Punt days, and have seen a lot of great football on the Plains. This lazy shirker finally learned the value of hard work and persistence from the fine folks in Auburn, and enjoys his return visits immensely!
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Morning Acid. Hope the cat does not destroy the tree. I had a black cat that loved to climb into the tree. Quite a shock when you are greeted by pair of orange eyes shining out of the tree in the night.

I look forward to viewing the play by play. It is a great day for football and I will begin with the Georgia/GT game. Some of my friends are heading to Tuscaloosa, but I will stay and watch the game with my 90 year old mother. Stan and Rob should be good on the radio today.

Go to the AU network website and you can find a list of radio stations that will be carrying the game. Some will stream the broadcast. You have to wander around the list to find one. The only problem is that the TV and radio are not synced up. They are up to 5 seconds apart and it’s kind of disconcerting.

Go Tigers! Beat bama! War Eagle! Warming up to pull for our team. Cat nip around the tree that is a good idea, putting mine up this morning. Have a beautiful NC ornament to help sooth the wounds of the year and comfort me during the game and give me hope for winning and a bright new year as we start our climb to the top again, we will be back!

I can only hope Auburn can pull the upset, ill have all my Auburn gear on as well as my spoiled pit bull in auburn gear, I tought him how to do “touchdown” lets hope he can do it some today, War Damn Eagle, I believe in my tigers, Beat Bama!

Desmond Howard said if we keep it close into the 3rd quarter we might get a close win. But he also said if you remember Samford and son, “It could get Aunt Ester Ugly, if bama gets a fast start.” Wow, i sure hope not…Go Tigers! Let’s surprise them all.

Wish I could be there like I was in the ’60s when we weren’t much better than we are this year and I still yelled “WAR EAGLE” until I was hoarse no matter what the score. At 74, I still remember the “good old days”! It’s GREAT to be an AUBURN TIGER and it always will be!

WAR EAGLE !!!

GO BIG BLUE !!!

BEAT BAMA !!!

Keep up the great work at TET. Looking forward to next year and better days to come.

War Eagle Everybody! Even when you have little chance of victory, it’s always a special day. I’m still excited. My wife thinks I’m crazy. I can’t help it. It’s still the Iron Bowl. Looking forward to the commentary today Acid!

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Except it could take years before the NCAA releases any findings. It took ‘em 5 years to sanction Southern Cal, who’s boosters basically provided Reggie Bush a mansion to live in while he was playing for them.

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Tech’s had problems on defense all year. Against Georgia’s offensive talent, that’s not a good thing. I’d have rather had Georgia struggle a bit today. I’m afraid they’ll get the big head, and be vulnerable to Bama next week because of it.

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Frankly, I don’t like either Bama or Georgia. I’m rooting for a 0-0 tie in regulation, then the Georgia Dome power goes out and they have to call the game. Keep both of ‘em out of the BCS title game!

I live in SC on the Ga line, I have to listen to the Ga mouths all the time, it is almost as bad a bama I’m hoping they will both get disqualified so it will shut both of them up. We might just be the one to beat bama today!

Good call on the Bama/UGA game Acid. I am surrounded by Bama fans in my family and I have a lot of UGA friends that are at the game in Athens today. I have been invited to attend the SEC game next week, but I will go to the local Auburn bar in Atlanta to watch the game.

…..He’s not really a prototypical wishbone fullback. A lot of those guys were around 220-230, with breakaway speed to keep the linebackers and secondary honest, and not camping out on the flanks. If you look at the great Auburn option fullbacks like William Andrews and Tommie Agee, they had speed up the gut.

…..Prosch would be a killer Walsh-west-coast fullback. Think Tom Rathman, on those old 49er teams. Except Prosch is about 30 pounds heavier.

The GT/UGA game is no longer a rivalry. GT is down by 42-10 and Paul Johnson continues to run the football. It is all red in the UGA stadium at this point. I think that UGA has now won 10 out of the last 11.

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I saw a thread on that on AUC. Mods didn’t comment, one way or another. Another thread asked if McCarron was suspended for this game. I give no credence to either notion, nor the Jimbo to Auburn rumors. Let’s see a reputable news outlet report it, first, I sez.

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The NCAA has pretty much stopped issuing TV bans, due to the fact that it penalizes a whole league. What happens now is that the league withholds the TV money to the team on probation. The team can get half that money back later, if they keep their noses clean.

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Demetruce McNeal’s bugaboo all season has been being out of position and not understanding his assignment. He’s got good speed, but the staff is looking for assignment football, this late in the season.

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We’re back to our standard offensive line setup. Uzomah gets the start at tight end. Wright and Blackson get the start at tackle. Mincy and Holsey at corner, Ryan Smith and Jermaine Whitehead will start at safety.

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Typical offensive strategy against Auburn this season has been to check personnel. If Auburn’s in nickel, run the ball. With three linebackers in, throw to the flat or tight end. We’ll see if Bama does that early.

Just wanted to say hello to Jessica. She is the niece of a good friend. Jessica just started at Auburn’s Vet school and came over from Georgia Southern. This will be her first Iron Bowl and welcome to the Auburn family.

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Jeremy Shelley in for the PAT. It’s up, and it’s good. With 11:07 left in the first, Alabama takes a 7-0 lead. They’ll leave an extra tip for the zebras, who failed to call holding on the Bama offensive line, and nailed the Auburn secondary for two ticky-tack 15 yarders.

Checking in to the live thread! I got kicked out of the living room. My wife and I were decorating our Christmas tree, but I’ve gotten too distracted by the mess I’m watching in Bryant-Denny at the moment.

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Pumps, throws the screen to Jones, and two Auburn defenders leapt, left their feet, 7 yard pickup. 2nd and short, and McCarron will give to Laecey, and he’s gashing the Auburn defense for big yards.

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3rd and 8, possession play for the Tigers. Wallace in the gun after numerous shifts. Bama showing blitz. Wallace panicked throw, behind Uzomah, tipped, and intercepted. Lester is all the way to the Auburn 28.

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The collapse of the this defense was typified on that last replay, with Dee Ford dancing outside, and avoiding contact with the Bama line. And that’s a defensive end, trying to avoid contact on the goal line. That’s just marshmallow-soft.

No effort. I’m sick of being embarrassed like this. I’m mad that I care, I’m mad that I psyched myself up for something that the coaches and players obviously weren’t ready for. Fire the coaches at the half please.

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Auburn gave up 503 yards that half, most of them after contact on the ball carrier. In a bad year, this team is having its worst game of the season.

…..The offense didn’t help much, with two turnovers. Whenever we’d have a few successful runs, we’d pull the tight ends and fullbacks, again, and try to run. Loeffler has learned absolutely nothing, in 12 games. This staff needs to go to the WAC, or something.

I may need one of you to post bail for me before this is over. I’m surrounded by loud, mouthy, and drunken bammer a-holes and have little patience after this season! I will try to stay on the high road…

Shows how the team has completely quit on this coaching staff. Our two biggest rivals, & we get destroyed. Well, last year too. Right before the game I predicted to my friends a 45-3 loss. Looks like I under-estimated a little. Wondering how long Saban leaves in his starters? If I were he, maybe one possession in the 3rd? Obviously, they have bigger games coming. Not like we are really putting up much of a fight that his 3rd teamers can’t match.

In my 51 years this is the worst loss I have ever seen. The only question is will coach satan stop and kill and maime or go for destroy.. I thought next year we could rebound…but now it looks to me like it may wound us for several years, these players may never recover from this game. It might take 4 years to recover mind set. And I am an optimistic person.

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Other SEC teams are taking care of business right now. Florida leads punchless FSU, 13-3 at the half. Vanderbilt is pulping Wake Forest in Winston-Salem, 35-14. The Commodores will win 8 games in the regular season.

Sometimes you hate it when you’re right. I never dreamed Chizik could be this bad. This hurts.

It also goes to show you how unfair the world is. Doug Barfield didn’t get a Jay Jacobs buyout … he took a job selling furniture when he left Auburn. Later, he got back into coaching … at Evergreen/Conecuh Co HS. I don’t know that Chizik could handle Evergreen. *sigh*

Another in my season’s of first (things I had never, ever done before)…..I just quit watching the Iron Bowl. UF/FSU now on in the ATL. This follows the other first this season….leaving a game at the half (TAMU) and not going to the UGA home game.

well, I know some will not like my comment, but I am proud of this group of tigers. They never quit. I feel like CGC and Coach Trooper Taylor have done all they could with this group of young players and we should give them another year. These are Christian coaches and players. They are the same Christian coaches that lead us to a MNC in 2010. War DAMN Eagle.

The problem is AU has been far competitive against our biggest rivals. Barfield, Bowden, and Tubs never lost this bad against uat. Although I still think Chizik has an ego and a half, I don’t disagree he’s a good person.

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Whatever bad you want to say about Saban, he doesn’t rub it in on opposing teams or fans. I respect that.

……On the other hand, there’s nothing more humiliating for me than seeing a team take a knee against us, in scoring position. Jackie Sherrill did that in 2000, and I remember Bielma doing that in the 2006 Cap One. I hate us being that inept.

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It’s great to be an Auburn Tiger. This team has a LONG way to go before next September. On a failure as complete as this team, I think every facet needs to be evaluated, and lots of changes need to be made.

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This is officially the worst Auburn loss of my lifetime. Beaten by Alabama by 49 points. We’re unquestionably the worst team in the SEC West, and I don’t know that we could even beat Kentucky, right now.

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Well folks, it’s been real. Thanks for hanging in there with me on this miserable loss. I’ll throw out some grades by about lunch time tomorrow. Then, we get to watch the administration squirm for the next period. I’m not looking forward to it.

…..I think this team can only get better from this point, but I can’t imagine that the current structure will produce news in December that we’re happy with. These are dark times, to be sure.

…..War Eagle, everybody. It’s great to be an Auburn Tiger! And we’ll return from this. Make no mistake!

A perfect storm has caused a terrible year. I hope we and Chizik can take it for being, it is what it is, and part amicably if that is to happen. He gave us a NC and I will always be thankful for that.

Mikeautiger – what in your opinion were the key factors coming together causing it? Losing Malzahn and switching the offensive philosophy, the dearth of senior leadership (very few seniors starting and even fewer that were solid), the deaths over the summer?

Those things you mentioned, QB issues, change of DC, youth, our small size, a missed pass here, a penalty there on third down, just lots and lots of little things that by themselves seem insignificant add up to a terrible year. I think it did start with the deaths this Summer and when you added Prosch’s mother’s death sent kids into compound grief that mentally affected every aspect of the team mentally and emotionally. I.e. when I experienced compound grief my dad and then uncle 3 days apart; as a chaplain trained in grief, before compound grief I could do rounds in hospital over 14 floors and remember every patient I saw and what was said to chart. After compound grief started if I did not write down room number and a note of what was said I could not remember that after 10 feet out of the room. This lasted for over 6 months and I am a trained professional where death and grief are concerned. I saw a professional because I thought I had Alzheimer’s or a brain tumor but it was just compound grief. Can you imagine, young people who have experienced 9 deaths around the Auburn program over the last 6 months to a year. All that went wrong this year can be seen as symptoms of compound grief, lack of concentration, lifeless, quitting, running out of gas in gams, loss of edge to play physical. Only person that could have changed it was Jesus. Chizik and staff never had a chance or knew what hit them.

Having coached in my past and combine it with my profession as a hospital and hospice chaplain I could right a book on the prefect storm that happened to Auburn this year.

The good news time and healing can make a difference and Auburn will be back. But it may be too late for Chizik and staff.

I totally agree mike, our lack of ability in the areas of: conditioning, game prep, recruiting quality players, or coaching every position on the field had nothing to do with how this season turned out. Our guys suffered emotionally throughout the year and it showed on Saturdays. The Bammers have no concept of what a real disaster and distruction is to their community. I’m just thankful we have Christian coaches like CGC, Assistant Head Coach Trooper Taylor, the Stache and YOX to lead our Auburn Men through these hard emotional times. I just hope these fair weather fans will get off their backs and let them all have a couple more seasons to right this ship. We are young too.

I dont understand. Im just repeating the things that we have all said throughout the offseason even though all signs pointed to the opposite direction. Im all in for CGC, Assistant Head Coach Trooper Taylor, the Stache, qb coach to Tom Brady CSL, and YOX. I believe in the creed and I also believe Auburn football is more than just “wins” against SEC opponents. Its about doing things the right way and knowing we are God’s team. Its about recruiting with integrity and running our program with moral superiority. If I were a Bammer I would see no more reason for celebrating this win than I would for celebrating a win versus Western Kentucky. Those idiots.

I have been a tide fan for 48 years. I have been a tide fan on 5 continents. I watch the games from Australia online when I can get them online. I am probably the only person in this country who has more Crimson Tide tee-shirts than Jessie Williams.
Dude. I can understand rubbing it in a little. But no matter what the score said, Nobody won that piss poor game today. It was an embarrassment for the state that has won the last three National Championships. I have been a lot of places. Enough to know the state of Alabama is not rich, or ritzy or even close to being the cultural epicentre of anything. But we have our football and the lifestyle and tradition that is second to none when it comes gameday.. That is what we had. Until today. After today’s game what was won? It was like beating up a cripple. And the rest of the Nation is still going to be moaning “who has Alabama beaten”.

Ok. Season over time to move on. Call it compound grief, bad coaching, wrong scheme. etc. Those are just excuses, which keep Auburn from dealing with the fact that we just aren’t good. Alabama had the tornado, didn’t hurt them. Teo for ND has two members of his family members in one day, in the running for heisman. Top recruiting classes, hasn’t panned out. No excuses, just bad. Time to move on and fix it.